Rabinowitch, Eugene
Rabinowitch, Eugene (1901-1973), a United States biophysicist. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and received a Ph.D. degree at the University of Berlin in 1926. He did research and taught at the universities of Göttingen and London and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before working on the United States atomic bomb project, 1944-46. In 1945, Rabinowitch helped found and became editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He was a professor of botany and biophysics at the University of Illinois from 1947 to 1968, when he joined the faculty of the State University of New York, Albany.